This is a 1 min 15 second overview of the entire week of action against both offshore drilling and gas fracking from May 15-19 in Washington DC. First up was Break Free From Fossil Fuels, with the DC action of this series demanding an end to offshore oil drilling. After that the Rubber Stamp Rebellion rolled into town, featuring members of frontline communities harmed by gas fracking, gas export (LNG), and the pipelines connecting them.

FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was the target of the Rubber Stamp Rebellion due to their habit of rubberstamping almost all applications for fracking, pipelines, and eminent domain. FERC Commissioners and FERC chairman Norman Bey even got home visits with an eminent domain notice read out against their homes, followed by a symbolic pipeline installation,

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